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"POLITICAL ENGINEERING"

Five Lectures on This Subject will be Delivered by J.M. MacKaye '95.

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A committee of eleven Professors of the University has arranged for a course of five lectures to be given within the next two weeks by James M. MacKaye '95 on "Political Engineering." The object of the committee is to attempt to found an ethical system on common sense and to apply that morality especially to politics.

The lectures, all of which will be open to the public, will be given in Emerson F at 4.30 o'clock on the afternoons announced below. Each lecture will have a special topic as follows:

December 6.-"The True Criterion of Right."

December 8.-"The happiness of Nations."

December 10.-"Liberty, Equality, and Democracy."

December 14.-"Capitalism and Socialism."

December 16.-"The Utility of Man."

The committee in charge of these lectures is as follows; chairman, Professor L.J. Johnson '87; Professors C.F. Adams, G. P. Baker '87, T. N. Carver, A.B. Hart '80, F. L. Kennedy '92, L. S. Marks, G.H. Parker '87, R.B. Perry '97, W.C. Sabine '88, and G. Santayana '86.

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